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Copyright 2012 CommonSource.All rights reserved.

Cover design by Diane McIntosh. Illustration iStock (penfold)

Printed in Canada. First printing April 2012.

Paperback ISBN: 978-0-86571-710-7

eISBN: 978-1-55092-503-6

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Share or die : voices of the get lost generation in the age of crisis / edited by Malcolm Harris with Neal Gorenflo.

ISBN 978-0-86571-710-7

1. Cooperation. 2. Cooperativeness Moral and ethical aspects.3. Sharing. 4. Generation Y Economic conditions. 5. Generation Y Conduct of life. I. Harris, Malcolm II. Gorenflo, Neal III. Title.

HD3271.S52 2012 334 C2012-901348-X

Contents Preface Neal Gorenflo Foreword Cory Doctorow Introduction The Get - photo 1

Contents

Preface

Neal Gorenflo

Foreword

Cory Doctorow

Introduction: The Get Lost Generation

Malcolm Harris

WORK

Things as Which Ive Been Asked to Dress: Life in the Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Samantha Miller

Unprepared: From Elite College to the Job Market

Sarah Idzik

Quitter

Emi Gennis

Take It And Leave It: Inside the Pack of a Modern Nomad

Nine

Heartbeats and Hashtags: Youth in Service

Hannah Brencher

The Janus-Faced Craigslist: Comedy, Tragedy and Video Games

Ryan Gleason

Emergent by Design

Venessa Miemis

Organizing the Precariat

Tom Judd

How to Start A Worker Co-Op

Mira Luna

INTERMEZZO

Get on the Lattice

Astri Von Arbin Ahlander and Yelizavetta Kofman

LIFE

The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption 95

Beth Buczynski

Stranger Dinners

Arianna Davolos

Eating Rich, Living Poor

Melissa Welter

Flexible Lives, Flexible Relationships

Lauren Westerfield

Who Needs an Ivory Tower?

Jenna Brager

Detroit, Community Resilience and The American Dream

Milicent Johnson

Every Guest a Host: Inside a Nomad Base

Robin

Screening for Gold: How to Find and Keep your Good Housemate

Annamarie Pluhar

How to Build a Housing Co-Op

Mira Luna

SOCIETY

Bad Education

Malcolm Harris

Learning Outside the Academy

Eric Meltzer

Occupy Everything

Willie Osterweil

10 ways Our World is Becoming More Shareable

Neal Gorenflo & Jeremy Adam Smith

Notes

About the Authors

Preface

Neal Gorenflo

About six months ago, a weather-beaten, middle-aged man asked me for money on the platform of the Mountain View Caltrain station.

I gave him three dollars. He thanked me and asked what I did for work. I introduced myself and learned his name (Jeff), and we shook hands. I pulled a card from my computer bag and handed it to him as I told him that I publish an online magazine about sharing.

Jeff lit up, Oh, I get that. When youre homeless, its share or die.

That got my attention, and I asked him to explain. Jeff said that a year earlier, his girlfriend had drunk herself to death alone in a motel room. He said she wouldnt have died had someone been with her. For him, isolation meant death.

Jeff explained his perspective further: He has no problem giving his last dollar or cigarette to a friend; it comes back when you need it. But there are those who just take. You stay away from them.

I asked him about the homeless people in Mountain View, which is in the middle of prosperous Silicon Valley. Jeff said there are 800 homeless people in the city and that each has a similar story.

That conversation got under my skin. I shared it with Malcolm Harris the next day during a call about this book. Half-joking, I suggested Jeffs phrase, share or die, as a title. At the time, I thought it was over the top. I wasnt serious. But Malcolm began using it in correspondence about the book. It stuck.

My conversation with Jeff marked a turning point in my thinking. I had thought of sharing as merely smart because it creates positive social, environmental and economic change through one strategy.

But Jeffs story and the directness of his phrase share or die broke through my intellectualization of sharing. Jeff helped me see something that I was blind to, even though I knew all the facts that sharing is not just a smart strategy; its necessary for our survival as a species. This has always been so, but today our condition is especially acute were using 50 percent more natural resources per year than the earth can replace. And global population and per-capita consumption are growing. Its now glaringly obvious to me that we need to learn to share on a global scale fast or die.

But the threat is not only one of biological death. Those like me, who are in no danger of starving, face a spiritual death when we act as if well-being is a private affair, and gate ourselves off from the rest of humanity with money and property. We can neither survive nor live well unless we share. Its my outrageous hope that the young voices in this book will do for a generation what Jeff did for me wake them to the idea that sharing can save them and the world.

Foreword

Cory Doctorow

This was supposed to be the disconnected generation. Raised on video games and networked communications, kept indoors by their parents fear of predators and the erosion of public transit and public spaces, these were the kids who were supposed to be socially isolated, preferring the company of video-game sprites to their peers, preferring Facebook updates to real-life conversations.

The Internets reputation for isolation is undeserved and one-dimensional. If the net makes it possible to choose to interact through an electronic remove from the real world, it also affords the possibility of inhabiting the real world even when youve been shut away from it by your fearful parents or the tyranny of suburban geography.

Even as entertainment moguls were self-servingly declaring Content is king, they failed to notice that content without an audience was about as interesting as a tree that falls in the deserted woods. Conversation is king, not content. If we gather around forums to talk about TV shows or movies or games or bands, its because we enjoy talking with each other, because social is the best content there is. Content is just something to talk about. Thats why the telecom industry the industry that charges you to connect with other breathing humans is 100 times larger than the entertainment industry.

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